female vs male standards for admission

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<p>A 2006 article on this topic, with excerpt below:
[ACE</a> | College Enrollment Gender Gap Widens for White and Hispanic Students, but Race and Income Disparities Still Most Significant New ACE Report Finds](<a href=“http://www.acenet.edu/AM/Template.cfm?Section=HENA&TEMPLATE=/CM/ContentDisplay.cfm&CONTENTID=17251]ACE”>http://www.acenet.edu/AM/Template.cfm?Section=HENA&TEMPLATE=/CM/ContentDisplay.cfm&CONTENTID=17251)

Trends Among Traditional-age Undergraduates (Age 24 or Younger)</p>

<p>Among whites, a clear female majority has emerged since 1995–96, with the male share of undergraduates dropping from 49 percent in 1995–96 to 46 percent in 2003–04. This change is due to a decline in the share of low-income white students who are male, from 48 percent in 1995–96 to 44 percent in 2003–04.
Among Hispanics, the percent of students age 24 or younger who are male fell from 45 percent to 43 percent, due primarily to a drop in the share of low-income students who are male.<br>
African-American males saw some progress with their share of enrollment rising from 37 percent in 1995-96 to 40 percent in 2003-04, but the gender gap is still largest in this racial group.
Asian-American men are now at parity with their female peers after having been in the majority in 1995–96.
Data for American Indian undergraduates are incomplete due to low sample size.
Bachelor’s Degrees</p>

<p>Despite progress by African Americans and Hispanics, the gaps in educational attainment between these groups and whites are larger today than they were in the 1960s and 70s. </p>

<p>Significant gender gaps favoring women did not develop within each racial/ethnic group until the mid- to late-1990s. Since that time, the gap among whites has grown as the percentage of white women with bachelor’s degrees continues to increase while the percentage of similarly educated white men has remained essentially flat. </p>

<p>Over the longer term, however, the share of white men earning bachelor’s degrees has increased, rising during the early 1990s to exceed a previous peak achieved during the Vietnam War era.

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